During the modern Star Treks (relative to the timeline, e.g mid 24th century onwards, especially in Voyager), memory capacity is measured in 'quads,' 'kiloquads,' 'megaquads,' 'gigaquads' etc, but there is no standard among these that can be followed and used as a real system. For example, when t...
The Monks on Doctor Who are a group of aliens that control human society and manipulate human memories to achieve their goals. They resemble a religious order (they are, after all, named the Monks). They also are capable of killing people with electrical discharges. They resemble living corpses. ...
In the Star Trek TNG episode 'The Host' (season 4, episode 23), we first meet the Trill, and in this iteration, they have rubber prosthetics on their foreheads, but in Star Trek DS9, which takes place in the same timeline as TNG, when we have a Trill as a returning character (Jadzia Dax), the spe...
In Star Trek Into Darkness, specific episodes in Voyager and on other occasions, we see the homes of Starfleet officers, as well as hundreds of sky-scrapers and other large buildings. In these buildings, all different sizes and shapes, it is fair to assume that some residences would be more luxur...
This seems like a fairly obvious question. Morpheus is a user, his password's about to be found out, but why can't the sysadmins (the people controlling the mainframe) change the password? Or delete his 'user account'? It's not like this is a stealthy 'hack'; they know that Morpheus is compromise...
Pre-Disney, the Mandalorians were a warrior people living on the planet Mandalor and several other locations. They were the instigators of the Mandalorian War.
From Wookieepedia:
Mandalorian was a demonym that referred to the people of the planet Mandalore. Mandalorians also lived on the mo...
In The more recent Star Treks (Enterprise, DS9 and Voyager), the same actors have been used to portray several characters. An example is Jeffrey Alan Combs, who played Weyoun and Brunt in DS9, Shran in Enterprise and Penk in Voyager, among many others.
All of these characters, obviously, look si...
In Chapter 24 of the Eye of the World, Wheel of Time, Rand is acting wierd, just like somebody who touched the source on their own as explaind Moiraine some chapters earlier. Obviously, he is not chanelling at the moment, so when did he channel before? When escaping the dream?
It's about a boy who get's to know that his father is a dark angel/elf. He used his mother to get a new elf/angel on the world. When he grew up, he was taken by a certain elf/angel, named Claudia. I remembered they said her wings were dark purple to silver at the top of the feathers (their wings ...
"Everybody" knows that the Stanislav Lem characters Trurl and Klaupacius in Cyberiad are robots. But I have not found explicitly mention of this fact (in English translation at least).
Is there definite evidence of the robotic nature of the constructors?
The director Guillermo Del Toro has stated in an interview that he provided three important clues which showed that the events actually took place and not just in Ofelia's head. In his words,
There are three clues in the movie that tell you where I stand. I stand in that it's real. The most i...
First, the weaponry. Well, I vaguely recall weaponry. The IG has powerful weapons. I could understand that they may have been for defense only, but since he's a machine and would he had been a research robot they wouldn't have put any weapons on him at all.
Secondly, the dent in the IG head. Am...
"This is Aztec gold. One of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortés himself."
Is there any significance to that number, 882? Either in universe, or out of it.
Voldemort never told anyone about his horcruxes, so how was Regulus able to find the locket?
When the Germans attack Themyscira, a metal warship is seen behind the smaller boats that go to the beach. However, after the fighting ends, the warship disappears.
Is it just a continuity error, or did something happen to it? If so, what?
I was just reading the comic book adaptation of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and this line by Chirrut Îmwe caught my attention:
The strongest stars have hearts of kyber.
This line is exactly the same as in the original film.
What does Chirrut mean? He can't be speaking about the Death ...
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It isn't explicitly outlined in the movie as to what happens in Diana's life from the end of First World War up until the present day but it doesn't seem like she goes back to her home island - Themyscira.
It was never like her people banished her or never wished to see her again...
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I would like to clarify why I believe that this proposal be kept open until something is done with regards to
A Separate vote in favour and against a feature request
and to
B agree/disagree button on meta or upvote/downvote effects based on tags
If A is indeed a duplicate of B, then my pr...
We know that the Millennium Falcon is so fast that it "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs" according to Han Solo.
A fast ship needs a good power source, however, so what is the Millennium Falcon's power source?
Because she always talked rubbish about omens, deaths, the Grim, etc which never happened. Even Professor McGonagall told students not to pay attention to her nonsense. I also wonder why Dumbledore kept her as a teacher.
I'm trying to find a short story about a young guy who
has a job packing/unpacking crt-tv tube box/robots which are virtual tourists. The tourists come across as
being loud and rude.
I read this in the early 1970's.
Thanks
I just finished Flash S-05 and certain things are unclear to me. As far as the TV show goes, I understood that Tracy Bran's Speed force Bazooka didn't work with Savitar because Savitar had the philosophers stone in hand.
Please forgive my ignorance of the fact that I have never read any flash c...
I'm trying to figure out how far back I need to go to get the full picture of the current Magic: the Gathering story.
There's a full list here which seem to be split into various cycles not all of which are relevant.
For the sake of simplicity, I'm interested up until the Theros series which s...
Near the start of Wonder Woman the Germans, in their search, stumble across the Amazonian homeland. Outside the magical forcefield there is a battleship that seems to be doing fine. However once the ship breaches the forcefield it quickly sinks.
What happened there? Why did it start sinking?
It's coming out in a couple of months. Will Hela be the best villain Marvel has ever offered (including Thanos from Infinity War)? Can she overstep DC's Joker?
